Before I take over nice Mr Noshers 'In bad taste thread'...
What were the top three albums of your youth, not just the 'trendy ones', but the discoveries that changed your musical tastes to this day?
Aged 14 (1988) I found my dad's album collectiod included Pink Floyd - Meddle, Piper at The Gates of Dawn and Dark Side of The Moon.
Still I'm my top ten to this day!
Scientist - Meets the Space Invaders (Dub Reggae)
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Blondie - Parallel Lines
About half my (not huge) collection is dub reggae, most of the rest is other forms of reggae.
I do have Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits, probably because I thought I should have some rock. But that's enough.
Cheers, Colin
I suppose Parallel Lines by Blondie has to be there as it was my first vinyl album, but I was more of a singles man 'cos my paper round money didn't goo too far ;D
so:
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Purple Rain - Prince
Destination Zululand - King Kurt
Around 1978 (age 16) -
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Led Zeppelin - IV
Stil listen to all regularly, although AC/DC is generally confined to the i-pod as my wife has an allergy to them. :o
Later youth
Fragile - Yes
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Split - Groundhogs
Still love all those, though they probably wouldn't quite make my top ten nowadays.
Earlier youth
Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Mad Shadows - Mott The Hoople
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
Not so keen on any of those now though.
Malbork.....Love your choices !!
Cheers Phil.
Just noticed your post in the other thread Lemmey......
LOTS I recognize....Not every single one ;)
You depressed me with your comment about the original Physical Graffiti.....
Threw virtually all of my vinyl away when we moved to Wales......I gave a lot to the local radio station though.
Mind you, although the albums themselves were in almost mint condition, one of our lovely cats used the spines of the covers to sharpen his claws, so they would have been virtually worthless.
Just got a handful left now....The rarest is probably one of the half speed mastered version of DSOTM....That one got kept in a plastic cover
Quote from: Albie Bach on 14 December 2012, 07:56:41 AM
Scientist - Meets the Space Invaders (Dub Reggae)
Cool! Haven't heard that album in years! The student house where I lived while doing my post-grad had a strictly organised wall of white labelled Dub and Ska, FANTASTIC! Late night 'journeys into dub' after a shift at barwork, best way ever to chill out! The neighbours also came round to join in, and brought their own...
Silvia Marlowe: The Goldberg Variations
Lorin Maazel: The Brandenburg Concerti
Gustav Leonhard: The Bach Harpsichord Concerti
Call me a monomaniac if you wish.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 December 2012, 09:02:44 AM
Silvia Marlowe: The Goldberg Variations
Lorin Maazel: The Brandenburg Concerti
Gustav Leonhard: The Bach Harpsichord Concerti
Call me a monomaniac if you wish.
Couldn't you afford sterio?
Earliest important musical experience was hearing my mate's older teenage brother's copy of Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden. We must have listened to that album hundreds of times, back to back while pushing some old GW D&D minaitures around the floor. Good times. Changed a 10yr olds music taste from top 40 pop to metal, much to my parents horror! They tolerated it fairly well to be fair.
Pixies - Surfer Rosa. From the stark and slightly nuaghty album cover to the opening guitar and drums followed by Black Francis voice, the like of which I had never heard before, I was hooked. Fantastic catchy pop songs subverted by bizarre guitar sounds and the freakiest lyrics I had ever heard.
Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions. Scared the life out of me and was hard work to listen to first time round, as it was so different from anything else I had ever heard. Up till that point hip hop had been White Lines or Run DMC with Aerosmith, not what sounded like a riot in a radio station with an angry man shouting deep political messages at me. Now its one of my favourite records of all time and its hard now to remember the overwhelming impact it had on me aged 15 sat in my classroom on a wet lunch break.
All Mod Cons - The Jam
The Specials - The Specials
And probably joining the crowd and also nominating Parallel Lines as well
For me the three would be
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
The Clash - The Clash
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
The Pistols album is still my all time favourite
I used to listen to all my mums old Rock n Roll albums, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly etc. My own musical journey started with.
Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden.
All the Best, Stiff Little Fingers.
Too much to Young, The Specials.
On the other side of things however the last two concerts I went to see where Idina Menzal and Andre Reau.
Intersting that Parallel Lines has come up three times...
I'll lower the tone and go on to suggest that it has nothing whatsoever to do with teenage hormones and one Miss D Harry... =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~
First albums I bought, on cassette, were:
Meat - Loaf Bat out of Hell
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Boston - Boston
Think I still have these tapes as well! Although they don't play very well :P
David Hamilton used to play Boston's More Than A Feeling on radio 1 when I got home from school, that was the game changer!
I had a copy of Parallel Lines in there somewhere.
In Search of Space - Hawkwind
Next - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Killer - Alice Cooper
Alan
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 December 2012, 06:59:05 AM
What were the top three albums of your youth, not just the 'trendy ones', but the discoveries that changed your musical tastes to this day?
Hmmm...that's tricky you know...let's see, albums that changed my 'youth'...
1. Steeleye Span: Below the SaltAlways was a bit of a folky, but this album broke the camel's back on any resistence i might have had. Still have the record although no player to play it on!
2. Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman about PoetryFrom this album came my change from a disaffected moaner to a political activist. Cheers Bill.
3. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the PleasuredomeBecause it led directly to the end of my 'youth'.
-L'École du micro d'argent - IAM (1997) (french rap)
-No Way Out - Puff Daddy (1997)
-System of a down - System of a down (1998)
Hi
Parallel lines for me too
but then ditched pop for bashing my eardrums with AC/DC
Back in black
Let there be rock (which is quite frankly the greatest album of all time)
Jim
Metallica - The black one
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage against the machine
Caress of Steel - Rush
Warrior at the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Grave New World - The Strawbs
Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson
Seventh Sojourn - The Moody Blues.
I'm sure I will sound like a heretic here, but music has never featured that much in my life. Books however are a completely different matter :).
Not heresy at all!
Yep, can't even remember what albums I had in my "youf". Give me a good book every time. :P
Love books too, but music and sex are the real thing.
Haven't you realised yet, there is no "real thing". We're all living in the Matrix. :o
I've been trying to think on this one, I seem to have forgotten most of it!
So, the ones which stick out are:
Queen - Greatest Hits II: We had some of the other albums, but this one got the most play.
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms: Awesome album, still listen to it regularly now.
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill: One of the first albums I ever bought on CD!
my youth was a mix of Reggae and Ska 8) even though I was a skinhead in the 80'S :o I wasn't very conventional liked to read and grow Cacti not your typical Skinhead I admit LOL
but main three
Hazel O'connor Breaking glass
Bob Marley any album
Madness
but my musical tastes changed a few years ago to listening to Rammstein (German industrial metal) now I have no eardrums left
Sean
Quote from: Leon on 16 December 2012, 06:08:53 PM
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms: Awesome album, still listen to it regularly now.
Adgreed, although i actually preferred the more intimate Love Over Gold album.
Belting album !
Cheers - Phil.
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
In the court of the crimson King - King Crimson
Photo Finish - Rory Gallagher.
Black Rose - Thin Lizzy
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
Down to earth - Rainbow
My first three albums - all aged 10:
AC/DC: Back in Black
Iron Maiden: Killers
The Police: Ghost in the Machine
Still got 'em all in their original vinyl / cassette... as well as on CD & digital now 8)
Have you noticed, in the main wargamers tend to prefer the noisy hard rock stuff? Dr Freud might have something to say about that. :D
And that's always been true as well. Wargamers have little taste (myself excluded obviously 8) )
Anything by Buddy Holly
Beach Boys - All vinyl up to and including 'Smiley Smile'
Four Seasons - 'Editione D'Oro'
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - 'The First Hurrah' and other
Quote from: goat major on 20 December 2012, 08:57:01 AM
And that's always been true as well. Wargamers have little taste (myself excluded obviously 8) )
AHEM !!
I have the ultimate taste.....
Ray's right though....Hard Rock
seems to be the particular 'genre' that the
majority ? of wargamers seem to gravitate to....(or from) ;)
What I found
rather spooky, from a few years back....Was that when I put in my very first order to Amazon.....I got back a list of other items "that you might like."
The were spot on in just about every case.....From a rock CD...They could have a good guess as to the books I'd like....and a lot of other stuff.
Are we all that predictable ?....Horrifying ! ;D ;D ;D
Good to see that our friends on the forum aren't quite SO predictable.....A nice selection of albums from different eras and styles/genres.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 20 December 2012, 10:04:01 AM
The were spot on in just about every case.....
You really shouldn't have let Amazon insert that chip in your head - I know it qualifies you for free postage but there's so many downsides. Of course there's nothing to worry about with the GW chip that I have inserted. Now, must be off to buy more trolls for The Hobbit...
;D ;D ;D ;D
It is possible that other genuinely music-loving gamers have chosen not to stand up and be counted. I can't believe I'm the only one.
Grieg's Peer Gynt has always been a favourite since school music classes but never moved me as much as the Clash or the Pistols did at the time. We had some Grieg playing at my mums funeral - brilliantly moving stuff, but I am not the same person as I was 30 odd years ago which is the point of the thread ;)
Teenage kicks and all that :D
We played Cole Porter at my father's funeral.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 December 2012, 11:18:11 PM
It is possible that other genuinely music-loving gamers have chosen not to stand up and be counted. I can't believe I'm the only one.
Not at all. Dvorak and Mahler were always favourites of mine. And
The Ride of the Valkyries at full blast on the motorway late at night is almost guaranteed to bring up blue flashing lights in your rear-view mirror. :d
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-black Sabbath,
The Real Thing- Faith No More,
Blizzard of Oz- Ozzy Osbourne
Hmmm...my choices seem to support the theory too... :-\ ;)